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Performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus assays in paediatric tuberculosis: a multicentre PTBNET study
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  • Danilo Buonsenso Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze biotecnologiche di base, cliniche intensivologiche e perioperatorie – Sezione di Microbiologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy Center for Global Health Research and Studies, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Antoni Noguera-Julian Malalties Infeccioses i Resposta Inflamatòria Sistèmica en Pediatria, Unitat d'Infeccions, Servei de Pediatria, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain Departament de Pediatria, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain Red de Investigación Translacional en Infectología Pediátrica, Madrid, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rossana Moroni Direzione Scientifica, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Angel Hernández-Bartolomé Paediatric Infectious Diseases Department, Gregorio Marañón University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. Gregorio Marañón Research Health Institute (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas {CIBER INFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nora Fritschi Mycobacterial and Migrant Health Research Group, University of Basel Children’s Hospital Basel and Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Laura Lancella Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Bambino Gesù Children Hospital, Rome, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Laura Cursi Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Bambino Gesù Children Hospital, Rome, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Aleix Soler-Garcia Malalties Infeccioses i Resposta Inflamatòria Sistèmica en Pediatria, Unitat d'Infeccions, Servei de Pediatria, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Renate Krüger Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Cornelia Feiterna-Sperling Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Michela Sali Dipartimento di Scienze biotecnologiche di base, cliniche intensivologiche e perioperatorie – Sezione di Microbiologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze di Laboratorio e Infettivologiche, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli", IRCCS, Rome, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Andrea Lo Vecchio Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sara Scarano Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alicia Hernanz Lobo Paediatric Infectious Diseases Department, Gregorio Marañón University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. Gregorio Marañón Research Health Institute (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas {CIBER INFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Maria Espiau Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Antonio Soriano-Arandes Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Benhur Sirvan Cetin Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Folke Brinkmann Department of Paediatric Pulmonology, Children's Hospital, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Iveta Ozere Riga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Fernando Baquero-Artigao Red de Investigación Translacional en Infectología Pediátrica, Madrid, Spain Hospital Infantil La Paz, Madrid, Spain CIBERINFEC, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Maria Tsolia Panagiotis & Aglaia Kyriakou Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tiago Milheiro Silva Hospital Dona Estefânia, Lisbon, Portugal PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Matilde Bustillo-Alonso Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Andrea Martín Nalda Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Margherita Mancini Specialty School of Pediatrics, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anna Starshinova St. Petersburg Scientific Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nicole Ritz Mycobacterial and Migrant Health Research Group, University of Basel Children’s Hospital Basel and Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Department of Paediatrics and Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital Lucerne Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Lucerne, Switzerland Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Svetlana Velizarova Medical University Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Laura Ferreras-Antolín Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Florian Götzinger Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine, National Reference Centre for Childhood Tuberculosis, Klinik Ottakring, Vienna, Austria PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Olga Bilogortseva Ukraine. Department of Children Phthisiology, National Institution of Phthisiology and Pulmonology of National Academy of Medical sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine Infectious diseases Centre «Clinic for treatment of children with HIV/AIDS» National Specialized Children's Hospital 'OKHMATDYT', Kiev, Ukraine PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Vira Chechenyeva Ukraine. Department of Children Phthisiology, National Institution of Phthisiology and Pulmonology of National Academy of Medical sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine Infectious diseases Centre «Clinic for treatment of children with HIV/AIDS» National Specialized Children's Hospital 'OKHMATDYT', Kiev, Ukraine PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marc Tebruegge Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Begoña Santiago-García Paediatric Infectious Diseases Department, Gregorio Marañón University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. Gregorio Marañón Research Health Institute (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas {CIBER INFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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  1. Correspondence to Dr Marc Tebruegge, Department of Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK; m.tebruegge{at}ucl.ac.uk
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Buonsenso D, Noguera-Julian A, Moroni R ptbnet QFT-Plus study group, et al
Performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus assays in paediatric tuberculosis: a multicentre PTBNET study
Thorax 2023;78:288-296.

Publication history

  • Received March 3, 2022
  • Accepted July 26, 2022
  • First published October 25, 2022.
Online issue publication 
May 11, 2023

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